When You Need Me, I'll be Smiling From Above

A Boy With Roses

As black as the night, I fall into hopeless shadows                                                  

Starlight burning through echoes                                                                                  

Photographs of us when we were younger                                                          

Disintegrating like ash on the tip of my fingers                                                                      

Life is a sad dream, lungs filled with smoke and no reckoning                                                    

In love and in need, I don't know what love means                                                                        

You broke my heart in drowning waters                                                                            

Now you don't wrap your arms around me                                                                    

I'm suffocating in this fog, the bitter taste of sorrow                

Coming to foam like the tattoo of black blood

 

I've made sandcastles out of pain                                                                                          

The spiral of the mind when hope fades like smoke                                                                

A letter at 2 a.m. sitting in a drawer                                                                                    

A box you never opened and wondered                                                                            

Where did the celestial light go?                                                                                    

You won't ever see me again, my smile disappeared                                                                

Last December in the snowy Vietnam of heartbreak                                                                          

Clutching onto the pearly white of seashells                                                            

Beached and I prayed you would show me the way                                                    

The space between us everyday is getting bigger                                                          

Like a melting glacier I can't explain 

 

Suddenly sirens appear, harsh clangs                                                                  

Materialised in thin air                                                                                                          

A screeching alarm pulls me out of sleep                                                                            

The softness I dream of like a father wiping away my tears                                              

I look out at the city and feel the aching inside                                                                  

Longing for the warmth of your touch. 

  • Author: Jordan Cash (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: November 2nd, 2021 18:20
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